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smallwebWooooah, we’re halfway there,
Wooo-ooah! (Lemon on a pe-ear!)
*ahem* We’re at the halfway point for Small Web September already!
If you’re wondering where the heck last two weeks went, you’re not alone – but don’t despair. There’s still loads of time for small webbing!
This is our ‘How’s it going?’ halfway point check-in, where you can share your SWS progress if you’d like to and compare notes with your goals at the beginning of the challenge. Has anything unexpected come up as you’ve worked on your small web project(s)? Are you focusing on the things you thought you would, or have you found some new side quests to go on?
Here are a couple of question prompts you can use for this check-in:
• What have you been working on so far for SWS?
• Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
• What are you looking to work on next?
As a reminder, this is the third of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates for these posts in the event intro post. There’s no cut-off point for leaving comments on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
To find our last check-in post and browse through all of the awesome resources and recs, go here: Small Web September Check-In 2: Recs and Resources
Wooo-ooah! (Lemon on a pe-ear!)
*ahem* We’re at the halfway point for Small Web September already!
If you’re wondering where the heck last two weeks went, you’re not alone – but don’t despair. There’s still loads of time for small webbing!
This is our ‘How’s it going?’ halfway point check-in, where you can share your SWS progress if you’d like to and compare notes with your goals at the beginning of the challenge. Has anything unexpected come up as you’ve worked on your small web project(s)? Are you focusing on the things you thought you would, or have you found some new side quests to go on?
Here are a couple of question prompts you can use for this check-in:
• What have you been working on so far for SWS?
• Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
• What are you looking to work on next?
As a reminder, this is the third of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates for these posts in the event intro post. There’s no cut-off point for leaving comments on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
To find our last check-in post and browse through all of the awesome resources and recs, go here: Small Web September Check-In 2: Recs and Resources
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Date: 2024-09-22 11:02 am (UTC)Last weekend I found the time to work on one of my main goals for the challenge, which was to improve my fic page (and also meta page, since I realised the same principles apply) styling. I created a dedicated fic page stylesheet with bigger margins for readability, and then I played around with some other aspects, like a slightly less bright white background and a slightly less stark black font colour to make it easier on the eyes. I used the WebAIM contrast checker to make sure that the new combination was still accessible.
I also looked at fic pages whose readability I like and figured out what they do that I wasn't doing, like bigger paragraph and line spacing, and then I added that. I toyed with making my headers a different font instead of Verdana, but then settled on a slightly closer letter spacing instead. (I love that all of that type of customisation is possible ^^) It's still a work in progress, so I can always improve on it later, but I like it much better now. You can see what the pages used to look like from this Wayback Machine capture of my first fanfic, versus the live version.
I applied the new stylesheet to all of my fic pages and then realised I should also add it to my pages for longer meta essays. In the process, I also realised that my imagery for my Harvard/Aiden meta essay was not mobile friendly at all, so I spent some time making it responsive for small screens, setting up a max width and adding a link to the image to view it in full (mainly beneficial for desktop, since on mobile the image is displaying as large as it can for the screen anyway). At the moment these don't open as overlays, so it's a separate page that you have to navigate back from - later I'll try and figure out how to do the overlay thing. I've found coding image stuff to be a bit of a pain because searching it turns up a billion and one WordPress plugins rather than what I actually want to do >.> (Also, figuring out the right vocabulary can be a challenge).